scope creep is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face my desire to replace my if-else block with an event system. i will permit it to pass over me and through me
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i’ve actually seen view counts on tweets and honestly it is such an unimaginably bad idea. it is going to create a whole new suite of Problems for people who have a dependence on numbers for validation/self-worth/etc. it’s actively harmful imo.
like the reason we don’t have Numbers is because we consider them to be harmful and not how you build a healthy community. when we (eventually) roll out Metrics for people who depend on them to run their business (creators who derive their income from Posting), they will be opt-in and deliberately convoluted to access; no front-and-center numbers.
although i guess for twitter’s goals (maximize engagement), adding cognitohazardous numbers is a good idea. it’s almost certainly gonna work for the people it doesn’t disgust enough for this to be their Last Straw. bad website.
I won't make a habit of chosting about the bird site, but I'm going to make an exception with today's changes.
Back when I first joined cohost I wrote the following:
One of the many things rad I find rad about cohost: not knowing my follower count!
There are enough meaningful bummers out there in life that it's nice, not having to overthink two people not wanting to see my posts anymore.
And now, Twitter's added a new metric to obsess over, a view count on every tweet! Thank goodness I moved away from there... I have no need for websites I use to make me feel like crap when I don't get read by people.
I'm not here to reach play social media like a game to win. I just want to chat and have a good time. 
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